The Caboolture Hospital Emergency Department Expansion

Author: Nick Siddle
Date Posted:5 December 2017

Health and Ambulance Services Minister Cameron Dick said Caboolture would share in $112.2 million over four years for planning and preparatory works for the redevelopment and expansion, with a further $19.6 million allocated to expand the emergency department (ED) over the next two years.

“The expansion will provide 14 new treatment spaces, four consultation rooms and one treatment room; almost doubling the current ED capacity”.

Our Challenge

Our challenge was to provide highly robust point of use sensor tapware focussed on addressing issues around infection control. The brief also required hot water piped directly to fixtures, addressing and reducing dead leg pipework sections to address infection control and aide in better water management.

The brief included tapware that was self-purging, self-draining, touch free and offered the facility the function to run a Hot water sanitisation flush cycle as Culture forming units (CFu’s) of legionella’s were detected.

Being a hospital, hygiene was a major concern, all of Galvin Engineering’s tapware products are easy to clean and laminar flow where possible to reduce the risk of infection being aerosolised, particularly legionella. Infection control via our integrated Progressive Thermostatic Mixing valves into the tapware will ensure all fixtures work to assist the control of Legionella and other infectious bacterium that may lead to hospital acquired infection and poor patient outcomes.

Our Solution

The team from Galvin Engineering Queensland worked with all stakeholders from specification, through to installation and commissioning to ensure the brief was met. This included supporting documentation around flow projections, mounting heights and maintenance.

Our specialist health team in Queensland have also provided ongoing assistance and training during this project to the onsite facility managers (FM’s) and installing contractors to ensure the facility and its clientele achieve better infection control results and better patient outcomes.

The CliniMix range of Progressive Thermostatic Mixing tapware and fixtures that provides the necessary infection control benefits and green star outcomes, combined with our reliable range of electronic sensor taps was the right choice for this specialist Healthcare project.

Products Specified and Installed:

WM-TMVPMW-PS

The first Australian approved Progressive Mixer with an inbuilt thermal disinfection facility for the wall mounted basin unit, helping to minimise the build-up of bacteria.

Enables water to be mixed closer to the point of discharge, minimising warm water which can provides the ideal condition for legionella bacteria to grow.